errand; mission; messenger; bearer; familiar spirit; use
oracle; revelation; divine message
grandfather (may be used after name as honorific); male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)
to send; to dispatch; to despatch; to bestow (favour, etc.); to grant (e.g. pardon)
indescribable (e.g. beauty)
short sword; knife; dagger; dirk; tantō
scoundrel; rascal; villain
flicker (light); waver; trickle (water); glance at
your native country; your hometown; my home country (i.e. Japan); countryside; country; (arch.) daimyo's territory (Edo period)
top; summit; twelve o'clock (usu. midnight); top of one's head; top of a helmet
ladder; stairs; going to several places in succession (e.g. barhopping)
live-in domestic service; live-in apprenticeship; public duty; public service
making a prayer (to a god or Buddha)
we; us; I; me; my store (business, etc.)
bad guy; villain; evildoer; scoundrel
indeed; really; absolutely; truly; actually; very
to look back on (the past); to reflect on; to look behind (at); to turn round (and look); to consider; to concern oneself about
painter; artist; drawing pictures; doodling; painting
I; me; personal (affairs, etc.); private; selfishness; partiality
later; afterwards; future; after one's death; (arch.) descendant
to go to heaven; to be called to heaven
far away; far off; far; long ago; long before
koto (13-stringed Japanese zither); (arch.) stringed instrument
Japanese league; ri; neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes); unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m)
preparatory school (for entrance examinations); cram school; cramming school
viaduct; overhead bridge; overpass; land bridge (biogeography)
to climb; to clamber (over, up); to scramble (up); to scale; to claw one's way up